Gautam Rode Quotes

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.